Julia Laite’s new book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey is at once an absorbing historical detective story that puts human faces on the global history of sex trafficking and a riveting meditation on the politics of storytelling. She discusses researching and writing the book with Marybeth Hamilton in this episode of the History Workshop Podcast.
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The Paranoid Style in Radical History
What if I told you radical history was narrated like a meme from The Matrix? Spencer J. Weinreich explores the uneasy rhetorical kinship between history and conspiracy theory.